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Friday, July 16, 2010

Live TV and Streaming of Manchester United North America Tour 2010

Manchester United is now on North America tour. They would play their first match in the tour against Celtic at the RogersCenter in Toronto of Canada on 16 July. They would then move to Philadelphia to face Philadelphia Union before facing Kansas City Wizards at Kansas in the USA.

Manchester United would face the MLS All-Stars team at Houston in their last match in USA on 28 July. The Red Devils fans are now eagerly waiting to see Manchester United players in their new kit for the 2010-11 season. The design of the new kit has been inspired by 1970’s Manchester United jersey and it features collar for the first time in many years.

Moreover, the fans are also excited to see the newly signed players Chris Smalling and Javier Hernandez in action for the first time. So, there are a number of reasons to be interested about Manchester United’s pre-season tour, even though all these matches are nothing but friendly affairs.

The North America Tour 2010 of Manchester United is going to be covered by the following TV Channels:

ESPN2

Three of Manchester United’s matches on the tour would be broadcast live on ESPN2 television channel. These matches are: Manchester United vs Celtic (16 July), Manchester United vs PhiladelphiaUnion (21 July) and Manchester United vs MLS All-Stars (28 July). ESPN2, a sports cable television network based in America, is owned by ESPN.

Fox Soccer Channel

Fox Soccer Channel would telecast only one match of the tour and that is Manchester United vs Kansas City Wizards (25 July). This specialty channel is owned by Fox Entertainment Group of News Corporation. Initially, the channel used to cover rugby and Australian Rules Football, but now this is a soccer channel.

Live Streaming on ESPN3.com

Except the Kansas City Wizards match, football fans can enjoy the live streaming of all of the Manchester United matches on their North America tour 2010 at ESPN3.com.

Manchester United could reportedly move to Mexico after the end of the MLS All-Stars match to face Mexican club Chivas. However, there is no information available about this match in the official website of Manchester United yet.